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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM HASLUP, OF SIDNEY, OHIO.

EARTH-SCRAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,890, dated July 5, 1881.

Application filed April 12, 1881. No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HASLUP, of Sidney, Shelby county, Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Earth-Scrapers; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, formingpartofthis specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view. Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the blank. Fig. 3 is a detail section on line a: m, Fig. 1.

My invention relates to improvements in earth-scrapers, and it consists of an earthseraper having its bottom formed of one piece of sheet or plate steel, with its sides and end or back bent or curved up, to which the sides and end of the scraper, made of a single piece of sheet-iron or other metal, bent angularly to conform with'the shape of the sides and end of the bottom, and the hooks for the attachment of the bail, are riveted, whereby great strength is given to the scraper in consequence of the double thickness of the metal where riveted together, and the strain on the hooks, in operating the scraper, is borne both by the sides and bottom of the scraper, as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, or represents the bottom of the scraper, which is made of a single piece of sheet or plate steel, having opposite slits cut in its sides 12, near its rear end, and the sides I) and back end, 0, of said bottom curved or bent up to the same height. The corners, where the back and sides join,can be bent so as to form either round or square corners. The sides 12 and back end, a, are perforated near their upper edges to receive rivets, as hereinafter explained.

d represents a piece of sheet-iron, which forms the back e and sidesf of the scraper, made in one piece, bent angularly to conform with the upturned back and sides of the bottom, and having the front parts of its sides sloping, so as to meet the bottom and give it the proper shape at the forward end of the sides of the scraper. The back and sides of the metallic piece (1 are perforated near their lower edges, and the piece (1 is secured to the upturned sides and back of the bottom by rivets passing through the perforations made in both,\vhereby additional strength is given the scraper in consequence of the double thickness of the metal where riveted together.

9 9 represent short perforated flat iron plates provided with hooks h at their ends. These plates are secured to each side of the scraper by two or more of the same rivets that secure the bottom and sides together, thus throwing the strain on both the sides and upturned flanges of the bottom, the hooked ends of the bail i, to which the power is applied, being secured to the hooks h h.

The removable handles are held in place by straps 70 secured to the sides of the scraper.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. In an earth-scraper, the combination, with the steel bottom a, made in one piece, and provided with the perforated upturned sides I) and end 0, of the back e and sides f, made in one piece, bent angularly to conform with the sides and end of the bottom, and provided with perforations near their lower edges for the passage of rivets, passing also through the perforations in the sidesand end of the bottom, substantially as described.

2. In an earth-scraper, the combination, with the steel bottom a, made in one piece, and pro vided with the perforated upturned sides I) and end 0, of the perforated back 0, and sides f, made in one piece, and perforated plates g, having hooks h secured to the sides of the scraper bythesamerivets that secure the sides to the bottom of the scraper, substantially as described.

WILLIAM HASLUP.

Attest:

G. A. MARsHALL, J. S. (JONKLIN. 

